newly named

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Margaretbarromyces Margaretbarromyces Margaretbarromyces is an extinct monotypic genus of pleosporale fungus of uncertain family placement. At present it contains the single species Margaretbarromyces dictyosporus....	Valid	Mindell Stockey Beard Currah	Eocene Eocene The Eocene Epoch, lasting from about 56 to 34 million years ago , is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the Cenozoic Era. The Eocene spans the time from the end of the Palaeocene Epoch to the beginning of the Oligocene Epoch. The start of the...	Appian Way Flora.	Canada	Extinct ascomycete fungus
Palaeoagaracites Palaeoagaracites Palaeoagaracites is an extinct monotypic genus of gilled fungus in the order Agaricales. At present it contains the single species Palaeoagaracites antiquus....	Valid	Poinar Buckley	Late Albian Albian The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is the youngest or uppermost subdivision of the Early/Lower Cretaceous epoch/series. Its approximate time range is 112.0 ± 1.0 Ma to 99.6 ± 0.9 Ma...  (Cretaceous)	Burmese amber.	Myanmar	oldest mushroom genus described from the fossil record.

New taxa

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Eophyllium	gen et sp nov	Valid	Wedmann, Bradler, Rust	Eocene Eocene The Eocene Epoch, lasting from about 56 to 34 million years ago , is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the Cenozoic Era. The Eocene spans the time from the end of the Palaeocene Epoch to the beginning of the Oligocene Epoch. The start of the...	Messel Pit fossil site	Germany	First leaf insect Phylliidae The family Phylliidae contains the extant true leaf insects or walking leaves, which include some of the most remarkable leaf mimics in the entire animal kingdom. They occur from South Asia through Southeast Asia to Australia...  from the fossil record.
Glisachaemus Glisachaemus Glisachaemus is an extinct monotypic genus of planthopper in the Cixiidae subfamily Cixiinae and at present, it contains the single species Glisachaemus jonasdamzeni...	gen et sp nov	valid	Szwedo	Early Eocene	Baltic amber Baltic amber The Baltic region is home to the largest known deposit of amber, called Baltic amber or succinite, with about 80% of the world's known amber found there. It dates from 44 million years ago...	Europe	new planthopper genus.
Mongolbittacus Mongolbittacus Mongolbittacus is an extinct genus of hangingfly in the family Bittacidae and containing a single species Mongolbittacus daohugoensis...	gen et sp nov	Vaild	Petrulevicius, Huang & Ren	Middle Jurassic Middle Jurassic The Middle Jurassic is the second epoch of the Jurassic Period. It lasted from 176-161 million years ago. In European lithostratigraphy, rocks of this Middle Jurassic age are called the Dogger....	Jiulongshan Formation	Mainland China	A bittacid
Sialis (Protosialis) casca	sp nov	jr synonym of Protosialis casca Protosialis casca Protosialis casca is an extinct species of alderfly in the Sialidae subfamily Sialinae. The species is solely known from the early Miocene, Burdigalian stage, Dominican amber deposits on the island of Hispaniola...	Engel & Grimaldi	Burdigalian Burdigalian The Burdigalian is, in the geologic timescale, an age or stage in the early Miocene. It spans the time between 20.43 ± 0.05 Ma and 15.97 ± 0.05 Ma...	Dominican Amber Dominican amber Dominican amber is amber from the Dominican Republic. Resin from the extinct species Hymenaea protera is the source of Dominican amber and probably of most amber found in the tropics....	Dominican Republic	only alderfly Alderfly Alderflies are megalopteran insects of the family Sialidae. They are closely related to the dobsonflies and fishflies as well as to the prehistoric Euchauliodidae. All living alderflies - about 66 species altogether - are part of the subfamily Sialinae, which contains between one and seven extant...  from the West Indies fossil record.

Newly named non-avian dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.

Name	Status	Authors		Notes	Images
Achillesaurus Achillesaurus Achillesaurus is a genus of alvarezsaurid theropod dinosaur from the Santonian-age Upper Cretaceous Bajo de la Carpa Formation of Rio Negro, Argentina. It was a relatively large, basal alvarezsaurid, and a contemporary of Alvarezsaurus...	Valid taxon	Martinelli Vera
Albertaceratops Albertaceratops Albertaceratops was a genus of centrosaurine horned dinosaur from the middle Campanian-age Upper Cretaceous Oldman Formation of Alberta, Canada....	Valid taxon	Michael J. Ryan
Amargatitanis Amargatitanis Amargatitanis is a genus of titanosaur sauropod dinosaur from the Barremian-age La Amarga Formation of Neuquén, Argentina...	Valid taxon	Sebastián Apesteguía
Asylosaurus Asylosaurus Asylosaurus is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Late Triassic of England. It is based on partial remains, described in 1836 by Henry Riley and Samuel Stutchbury as pertaining to Thecodontosaurus, that Othniel Charles Marsh brought to Yale University between 1888 and 1890...	Valid taxon	Peter M. Galton
Australodocus Australodocus Australodocus, meaning "southern beam" from the Latin australis "southern" and the Greek dokos/δοκоς "beam", is a sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Jurassic period, around 150 million years ago in what was then German East Africa...	Valid taxon	Kristian Remes
Berberosaurus Berberosaurus Berberosaurus is a genus of abelisauroid theropod dinosaur from the Pliensbachian-Toarcian-age Lower Jurassic Toundoute Continental Series found in the High Atlas of Toundoute, Ouarzazate, Morocco. The type species of the genus Berberosaurus is B. liassicus, in reference to the Lias epoch...	Valid taxon	Ronan Allain Ronald Tykoski Najat Aquesbi Nour-Eddine Jalil	Michel Monbaron Dale A. Russell Philippe Taquet Philippe Taquet Philippe Taquet is a French paleontologist who specializes in dinosaur systematics of finds primarily in northern Africa.He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences since November 30, 2004...
Cedrorestes Cedrorestes Cedrorestes is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Utah...	Valid taxon	Gilpin DiCroce	Carpenter
Cerasinops Cerasinops Cerasinops was a small ceratopsian dinosaur. It lived during the Campanian of the late Cretaceous Period. Its fossils have been found in Two Medicine Formation, in Montana....	Valid taxon	Brenda J. Chinnery	Jack Horner Jack Horner (paleontologist) John "Jack" R. Horner is an American paleontologist who discovered and named Maiasaura, providing the first clear evidence that some dinosaurs cared for their young. He is one of the best-known paleontologists in the United States...
Dongbeititan Dongbeititan Dongbeititan is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous-age Yixian Formation of Beipiao, Liaoning, China. It is based on holotype DNHM D2867, a partial postcranial skeleton including bones from the limbs, shoulder and pelvic girdles, and vertebrae...	Valid taxon	Wang You Meng	Gao Cheng Liu
Dromomeron Dromomeron Dromomeron is a genus of lagerpetonid dinosauromorph archosaur from Late Triassic-age rocks of the Southwestern United States. It is known from partial remains, largely from the hindlimbs,, which indicate an animal with an overall length of less than 1.0 meters...	Valid non-dinosaurian Dinosauriformes Dinosauriformes is a clade of archosaurian reptiles that include the dinosaurs and their most immediate relatives. All dinosauriformes are distinguished by several features, such as shortened forelimbs, and an at least partially perforated acetabulum, the hole in the hip socket traditionally used...  taxon.	Randall B. Irmis Sterling J. Nesbitt Kevin Padian Kevin Padian Kevin Padian is a Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, Curator of Paleontology, University of California Museum of Paleontology and President of the National Center for Science Education. Padian's area of interest is in vertebrate evolution, especially the... Nathan D. Smith	Alan H. Turner Daniel Woody Alex Downs	non-dinosaurian reptile
Eocursor Eocursor Eocursor was a primitive genus of dinosaur which lived during the Late Triassic , around 210 million years ago. It was an ornithischian which lived in what is now South Africa...	Valid taxon	Richard J. Butler Roger M. H. Smith	David B. Norman David B. Norman David Bruce Norman is a British paleontologist, currently Director of the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge University. He is a fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge where he teaches geology in the Natural Sciences tripos. He is a member of the Palaeontological Association. He has studied Iguanodon...
Eotriceratops Eotriceratops Eotriceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur which lived during the late Cretaceous period. Its fossils have been found in the uppermost Horseshoe Canyon Formation, dating to about 67.6 million years ago. Its skull is reported to have been around 3 metres long...	Valid taxon	Wu X. Brinkman	Eberth Braman
Futalognkosaurus	Valid taxon	Calvo Porfiri	González-Riga Kellner
Gigantoraptor Gigantoraptor Gigantoraptor is a genus of giant oviraptorosaurian theropod dinosaur that lived 70 million years ago during the late Cretaceous Period. It was discovered in 2005 in the Iren Dabasu Formation, Erlian basin, in Inner Mongolia.-Discovery and naming:...	Valid taxon	Xu Xing. Tan Q. Wang J.	Zhao X. Tan L.
“Gripposaurus”	Nomen nudum Nomen nudum The phrase nomen nudum is a Latin term, meaning "naked name", used in taxonomy...	Barrett Upchurch	Zhou X. Wang X.
Jiangjunosaurus Jiangjunosaurus Jiangjunosaurus is a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur from the Oxfordian-age Shishugou Formation of the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang, China. Remains including the lower jaw, some skull bones, eleven articulated neck vertebrae, and two plates are known. The type species, J. junggarensis, was described by...	Valid taxon	Jia C. Forster ( misspelled as Foster)	Xu Xing. Clark
Lamplughsaura Lamplughsaura Lamplughsaura is a genus of saurischian dinosaur from the Sinemurian-age Dharmaram Formation of India, between 196 to 190 million years ago. The type species is L...	Valid taxon	Kutty Sankar Chatterjee Sankar Chatterjee Sankar Chatterjee is a paleontologist, and is the Paul W. Horn Professor of Geosciences at Texas Tech University and Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of Texas Tech University. He earned his Ph. D. from the University of Calcutta in 1970 and was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian...	Peter Galton Peter Galton Peter M. Galton is a British vertebrate paleontologist working in America, who has to date written or co-written about a hundred papers in scientific journals or chapters in paleontology textbooks, especially on ornithischian and prosauropod dinosaurs.With Robert Bakker in a joint article... Upchurch
Lophostropheus Lophostropheus Lophostropheus was a genus of coelophysoid dinosaur from the Rhaetian-Hettangian stage border Moon-Airel Formation of Normandy, France. It is based on a partial skeleton first described in 1966 as a specimen of Halticosaurus...	Valid taxon	Martin D. Ezcurra	Gilles Cuny
Luanchuanraptor Luanchuanraptor Luanchuanraptor is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of China. It is based on a partial skeleton from the Qiupa Formation in Luanchuan, Henan. A medium-sized dromaeosaurid, it is the first Asian dromaeosaurid described from outside the Gobi Desert or northeastern...	Valid taxon	Lü Xu L. Zhang X. L. Ji Q.	Jia S. Hu W. Zhang J. M. Wu Y.
Mahakala Mahakala (dinosaur) Mahakala is a genus of basal dromaeosaurid dinosaur from the Campanian-age Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation of Ömnögov, Mongolia. It is based on a partial skeleton found in the Gobi Desert...	Valid taxon	Alan H. Turner Diego Pol Julia A. Clarke	Gregory M. Erickson Mark Norell
"Muyelensaurus Muyelensaurus Muyelensaurus is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Argentina. It was more slender than other titanosaurs. Fossils have been recovered from the Neuquén province in Patagonia. The type species is M. pecheni... "	Nomen nudum Nomen nudum The phrase nomen nudum is a Latin term, meaning "naked name", used in taxonomy...	Calvo González-Riga (as González Riga) Porfiri vide: Calvo Porfiri	González-Riga Kellner
Nanningosaurus Nanningosaurus Nanningosaurus is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous of the Nalong Basin, Guangxi, China. It is based on an incomplete skeleton including skull, arm, and hip remains. Some of its diagnostic characteristics include relatively few tooth positions, a gracile upper arm, and an...	Valid taxon	Mo Zhao Z.	Wang W. Xu Xing.
Nopcsaspondylus Nopcsaspondylus Nopcsaspondylus is a genus of rebbachisaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Coniacian-age Candeleros Formation of Neuquén, Argentina. It is based on a now-lost back vertebra described by Nopcsa in 1902 but not named at the time...	Valid taxon	Sebastián Apesteguía
Oryctodromeus Oryctodromeus Oryctodromeus was a genus of small ornithopod dinosaur. Fossils are known from the middle Cretaceous Blackleaf Formation of southwestern Montana and the Wayan Formation of southeastern Idaho, both of the Cenomanian stage, roughly 95 million years ago...	Valid taxon	David J. Varricchio Anthony J. Martin	Yoshihiro Katsura
Paluxysaurus Paluxysaurus Paluxysaurus is a genus of basal titanosauriform sauropod dinosaur from the late Aptian or early Albian-age Lower Cretaceous Twin Mountains Formation of Hood County, Texas, USA...	Valid taxon	Peter J. Rose
Pantydraco Pantydraco Pantydraco was a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Late Triassic of United Kingdom...	Valid taxon	Peter Galton Peter Galton Peter M. Galton is a British vertebrate paleontologist working in America, who has to date written or co-written about a hundred papers in scientific journals or chapters in paleontology textbooks, especially on ornithischian and prosauropod dinosaurs.With Robert Bakker in a joint article... Yates	Kermack
Pradhania Pradhania Pradhania is a genus of massospondylid sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Sinemurian-age Upper Dharmaram Formation of India. It was first named by T. S. Kutty, Sankar Chatterjee, Peter M. Galton and Paul Upchurch in 2007 and the type species is Pradhania gracilis...	Valid taxon	Kutty Sankar Chatterjee Sankar Chatterjee Sankar Chatterjee is a paleontologist, and is the Paul W. Horn Professor of Geosciences at Texas Tech University and Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of Texas Tech University. He earned his Ph. D. from the University of Calcutta in 1970 and was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian...	Peter Galton Peter Galton Peter M. Galton is a British vertebrate paleontologist working in America, who has to date written or co-written about a hundred papers in scientific journals or chapters in paleontology textbooks, especially on ornithischian and prosauropod dinosaurs.With Robert Bakker in a joint article... Upchurch
Shanag Shanag Shanag is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period of Mongolia.The type species of Shanag is Shanag ashile. It was named and described by Alan Turner, Sunny Hai-Ching Hwang and Mark Norell in 2007. The generic name refers to the black-hatted dancers in the...	Valid taxon	Turner Hwang	Mark Norell
Sinocalliopteryx Sinocalliopteryx Sinocalliopteryx is a genus of compsognathid dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China...	Valid taxon	Ji S. Ji Q.	Lü Yuan
Suzhousaurus Suzhousaurus Suzhousaurus is a genus of herbivorous therizinosauroid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous-age Xinminpu Group of the Yujingzi Basin, Gansu, China.-Discovery and naming:...	Valid taxon	Li D. Peng C. You Lamanna	Harris Lacovara Zhang J. P.
Urbacodon Urbacodon Urbacodon is a genus of troodontid dinosaur, a type of small carnivore. It lived in Uzbekistan during the early Late Cretaceous Period, about 95 million years ago. The first part of the name Urbacodon is an acronym, honouring the Uzbek, Russian, British, American and Canadian scientists who...	Valid taxon	Averianov	Hans-Dieter Sues Hans-Dieter Sues Hans-Dieter Sues is a German-born paleontologist who is Senior Scientist and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. He received his education at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz , University of Alberta, and...
Zhejiangosaurus Zhejiangosaurus Zhejiangosaurus is an extinct genus of nodosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Zhejiang, eastern China...	Valid taxon	Lü Jin X. Sheng	Li Y. H. Wang G. P. Azuma
Zhongyuansaurus Zhongyuansaurus Zhongyuansaurus is an extinct genus of ankylosaurid ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Ruyang, Henan, China. It is known from remains including skull, arm, pelvic, and tail bones. It is distinguished by characteristics such as a flat roof to the skull, a straight ischium, and the...	Valid taxon	Xu L. Lü Zhang X. L. Jia S.	Hu W. Zhang J. M. Wu Y. Ji Q.
Zhuchengosaurus	Junior synonym of Shantungosaurus Shantungosaurus Shantungosaurus, meaning "Shandong Lizard", is a genus of saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaurs found in the Late Cretaceous Wangshi Formation of the Shandong Peninsula in China.-Description:...	Zhao X. Li D. Han G. Zhao H.	Liu F. Li L. Fang X.

Newly named birds

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Kelenken Kelenken Kelenken is an extinct genus of giant flightless predatory birds of the family Phorusrhacidae or "terror birds".These birds lived in the Middle Miocene, some 15 million years ago, in Argentina along with Argentavis. With a skull 28 inches long , it had the largest head of any known bird...	Valid	Bertelli Chiappe Tambussi	Middle Miocene	Collón Curá Formation	Argentina	A phorusrhacid Phorusrhacidae Phorusrhacids , colloquially known as "terror birds" as the larger species were apex predators during the Miocene, were a clade of large carnivorous flightless birds that were the dominant predators in South America during the Cenozoic, 62–2 million years ago. They were roughly 1–3 meters tall... .
Martinavis Martinavis Martinavis is an extinct genus of enantiornithine bird which existed in what is now southern France, North America and Salta Province, Argentina during the late Cretaceous period. It was named by Cyril A. Walker, Eric Buffetaut and Gareth J. Dyke in 2007, and the type species is Martinavis...	Valid	Walker Buffetaut Dyke	Campanian/Maastrichtian	Grès à Reptiles Formation	Early Modern France	An enantiornithine.
M. vincei Martinavis Martinavis is an extinct genus of enantiornithine bird which existed in what is now southern France, North America and Salta Province, Argentina during the late Cretaceous period. It was named by Cyril A. Walker, Eric Buffetaut and Gareth J. Dyke in 2007, and the type species is Martinavis...	Valid	Walker Buffetaut Dyke	Maastrichtian	Lecho Formation Lecho Formation The Lecho Formation is a geological formation in Argentina whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation....	Argentina	An enantiornithine.

New papers

• Everhart, M. J. 2007. New stratigraphic records (Albian-Campanian) of the guitarfish, Rhinobatos sp. (Chondrichthyes; Rajiformes), from the Cretaceous of Kansas. Kansas Academy of Science, Transactions 110(3-4): 225-235.

Angiosperms

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Trochodendron drachuckii Trochodendron drachuckii Trochodendron drachukii is an extinct species of flowering plant in the family Trochodendraceae known from a fossil fruiting structure found in the early Ypresian age Eocene fossils found in British Columbia, Canada. T. drachukii is one of the oldest members of the genus Trochodendron, which...	Valid	Pigg Dillhoff DeVore Wehr	Ypresian Ypresian In the geologic timescale the Ypresian is the oldest age or lowest stratigraphic stage of the Eocene. It spans the time between and , is preceded by the Thanetian age and is followed by the Eocene Lutetian age....	unnamed formation, Kamloops Group	Canada

Plesiosaurs

• Everhart, M. J. 2007. Historical note on the 1884 discovery of Brachauchenius lucasi (Plesiosauria; Pliosauridae) in Ottawa County, Kansas. Kansas Academy of Science, Transactions 110(3-4):255-258.
• Everhart, M. J. 2007. Use of archival photographs to rediscover the locality of the Holyrood elasmosaur (Ellsworth County, Kansas). Kansas Academy of Science, Transactions 110(1/2): 135-143.

New taxa

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Name	Status	Authors		Notes
Eopolycotylus Eopolycotylus Eopolycotylus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur....	Valid	Albright Gillette Titus
Pahasapasaurus Pahasapasaurus Pahasapasaurus is a genus of plesiosaur. It was an early polycotylid plesiosaur from the Cenomanian of South Dakota, USA. Distinctive features of the taxon include elongate epipodial bones and the nature of the palate bones . The type species is P. haasi....	Valid	Schumacher
Palmula Palmula Palmula is an extinct genus of foraminifera which is known from a number of species found in rocks dating from near the beginning of the Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous, in Africa, Asia, Europe, and New Zealand. A genus of polycotylid plesiosaur was named Palmula in 2007, but because the...	Renamed Palmulasaurus Palmulasaurus Palmulasaurus is a genus of polycotylid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Utah. It was originally described as Palmula, but the name was occupied by a genus of Cretaceous foraminifer first described in 1833.... , as preoccupied by a genus of foraminifera Foraminifera The Foraminifera , or forams for short, are a large group of amoeboid protists which are among the commonest plankton species. They have reticulating pseudopods, fine strands of cytoplasm that branch and merge to form a dynamic net... .	Albright Gillette Titus
Palmulasaurus Palmulasaurus Palmulasaurus is a genus of polycotylid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Utah. It was originally described as Palmula, but the name was occupied by a genus of Cretaceous foraminifer first described in 1833....	Valid	Albright Gillette Titus

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New taxa

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Name	Status	Authors		Notes
Aralazhdarcho Aralazhdarcho Aralazhdarcho is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur from the Santonian-early Campanian Late Cretaceous Bostobe Svita of Kazakhstan.The genus was named in 2007 by Alexander Averianov. Already in 2004 the holotype had been described. The type species is Aralazhdarcho bostobensis. The genus name is...	Valid	Averianov
Gegepterus Gegepterus Gegepterus was a genus of ctenochasmatid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous-age Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China.The genus was named in 2007 by Wang Xiaolin, Alexander Kellner, Zhou Zhonge and Diogenes de Almeida Campos. The type species is Gegepterus changi...	Valid	Wang, X. Kellner et al.
Tupandactylus Tupandactylus Tupandactylus is a genus of tapejarid pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil. It is notable for its large cranial crest, composed partly of bone and partly of soft tissue...	Valid	Kellner Campos

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Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Charassognathus Charassognathus Charassognathus is an extinct genus of Late Permian cynodont. Described in 2007 from a locality near Fraserburg, South Africa, Charassognathus is the earliest and most basal cynodont. It is known only from the Holotype which dates from the upper Permian Period. The type species C. gracilis is the...	Valid	Botha Abdala Smith			South Africa
Deccanodon Deccanodon Deccanodon is an extinct genus of chiniquodont cynodont which existed in India during the Late Triassic. The type species is D. maleriensis, named in 2007. Deccanodon was the first Triassic cynodont named from India and was found in the Maleri Formation in Adilabad district....	Valid	Narth Yadagiri			India
Katumbia Katumbia Katumbia is a genus of dicynodont from Late Permian of Tanzania....	Valid	Angielczyk			Tanzania	New genus for "Cryptocynodon" parringtoni
Lophorhinus Lophorhinus Lophorhinus is an extinct genus of synapsid which existed in South Africa during the upper Permian period, comprising the single species Lophorhinus willodenensis....	Valid	Sidor Christian Sidor Christian A. Sidor is an American biologist and paleontologist, Associate Professor of the Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, curator of vertebrate paleontology in the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, member of the editorial board of the Journal of Vertebrate... Smith			South Africa

Mammals

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Junggaroperadectes Junggaroperadectes Junggaroperadectes is an extinct genus of peradectine marsupial which existed in Keziletuogayi Formation, China during the early Oligocene. It was first named by Xijun Ni, Jin Meng, Wenyu Wu and Jie Ye in 2007 and the type species is Junggaroperadectes burqinensis....	Valid	Ni Meng Wu Ye	Early Oligocene	Keziletuogayi Formation	Mainland China	A peradectine marsupial Marsupial Marsupials are an infraclass of mammals, characterized by giving birth to relatively undeveloped young. Close to 70% of the 334 extant species occur in Australia, New Guinea, and nearby islands, with the remaining 100 found in the Americas, primarily in South America, but with thirteen in Central...
Nakalipithecus	Valid	Kunimatsu Nakatsukasa et al.	Tortonian	Nakali Foramtion	Kenya

Complete author list

As science becomes more collaborative, papers with large numbers of authors are becoming more common. To prevent the deformation of the tables, these footnotes list the contributors to papers that erect new genera and have many authors.

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